DICT-NetMOT Gateway
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I just finished
motdictd.pl a
gateway between the DICT
protocol and the MOT online
(not free at all) dictionary collection accessible to the University of
Jyväskylä. It runs as a local DICT server, started from the command line by
any user (preferably not root) and listens to 127.0.0.1 on port 2628. DICT
queries are turned into HTTP requests to NetMOT, the resulting HTML code is
cleaned up and returned as pure text to the DICT client. The CLI DICT client
doesn't support multiple servers, so it accessing the gateway requires to call
dict -h localhost
if the default server is dict.org
.